He’s my hero: Jolie to film an epic life of wartime bravery

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If Fortune smiles on the brave, then Louis Zamperini is probably one of her favourites. An Olympic athlete turned airman, he spent 47 days on a raft in the Pacific, drinking rainwater and eating albatrosses and a shark that he dispatched with a screwdriver. He then survived several gruelling years in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp and came home a hero.

Now at the age of 96, his story is to be made into a film by Angelina Jolie, who declared that “he has made me a better person”. The actress announced her plans in a statement released by Universal Pictures.